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NEAL CONAN, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. Here are some of the stories NPR News is following this afternoon. A Marine general in […]

ALEX CHADWICK, host: This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick. Food safety investigators are still searching for contaminated Canadian cattle feed that may have infected a Washington state Holstein […]

NEAL CONAN, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. After a week of frantic detective work, the investigation continues into the life and death of […]

ALEX CHADWICK, host: The US Department of Agriculture has been reassuring the public that beef is still entirely safe to eat. The secretary of Agriculture, Ann Veneman, served it for […]

ALEX CHADWICK, host: And to politics. Slate's chief political analyst, Will Saletan, is with us. Will, we are at code level orange, which means the next-to-the-highest national security alert, and […]

ALEX CHADWICK, host: And to politics. Slate's chief political analyst, Will Saletan, is with us. Will, we are at code level orange, which means the next-to-the-highest national security alert, and […]

ALEX CHADWICK, host: We go now to Meeker, Colorado, where Kathleen Kelley and her husband raise cattle on the Josephine Basin Livestock Ranch. This is in northwest Colorado. Ms. Kelley […]

ALEX CHADWICK, host: Despite worries about mad cow disease, many American families will have roast beef on the menu for their holiday meal. But will Americans now start to feel […]

ALEX CHADWICK, host: From NPR News in Los Angeles and Slate magazine online, this is DAY TO DAY. Coming up, how a presumptive case of mad cow disease is affecting […]

NEAL CONAN, host: Now we turn to news from Canada that there's been a confirmed case of mad cow disease. The United States has placed a temporary ban on all […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4717907 MICHELE NORRIS, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel. US [...]

SCOTT SIMON, host: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is touring Asian capitals. Today, she took up a trade issue in Japan. In 2003, Japan banned imports of US beef over [...]

STEVE INSKEEP, host: And it's time for your comments. Last week, we aired a story about BSE or mad cow disease and how it caused the United States to close [...]

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: The beef industry is breathing a collective sigh of relief today. Cattle futures rose on news that a possible case of mad cow disease proved negative. Still, [...]

MELISSA BLOCK, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. The US Department of Agriculture is conducting tests on an animal suspected of having mad cow [...]

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Scientists in California believe they've cracked a mystery about mad cow disease. They appear to have proven that a simple protein can by itself cause the disease. [...]

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. MICHELE NORRIS, host: And I'm Michele Norris. For now, a mad cow scare appears to be [...]

MICHELE NORRIS, host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Michele Norris. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel. Another small meat packer will ask the federal government [...]

BOB EDWARDS, host: In the United States, agriculture officials say they will do yet more testing for mad cow disease. Since January, when a single cow with the disease was [...]

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: The federal government has been tightening rules in an effort to keep mad cow disease out of American herds and to protect people from the human version [...]

BOB EDWARDS, host: Wyoming isn't called the Cowboy State for nothing. It's home to nearly 10,000 cattle ranches, and the livestock industry accounts for more than a tenth of the [...]

BOB EDWARDS, host: A town hall meeting in central Washington state last night was remarkably harmonious given the circumstances. Livestock owners at the epicenter of the mad cow scare said [...]

BOB EDWARDS, host: Last month's discovery of mad cow disease in the state of Washington touched off a crisis for US beef producers. With billions of dollars at stake, cattle [...]

MICHELE NORRIS, host: US officials say it took four days to trace the Washington state animal with mad cow disease back to its birthplace in Canada. To head off future [...]

MICHELE NORRIS, host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Michele Norris. MELISSA BLOCK, host: And I'm Melissa Block. The discovery of a case of mad cow disease [...]

BOB EDWARDS, host: Agriculture officials are still awaiting the results of DNA tests which will confirm whether the holstein cow in the state of Washington that tested positive for mad [...]

STEVE INSKEEP, host: Next, we're going to explore the human variations of the sickness commonly called mad cow disease. The discovery of that disease in a single cow in Washington [...]

MICHELE NORRIS, host: Agricultural Secretary Ann Veneman announced today new steps to ensure the safety of US beef. The measures are intended to prevent the transmission of mad cow disease, [...]

BOB EDWARDS, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards. US agriculture officials learned yesterday that the Holstein in the state of Washington affected with mad cow [...]

MICHELE NORRIS, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris. MELISSA BLOCK, host: And I'm Melissa Block. New details today on the cow discovered in Washington [...]

BOB EDWARDS, host: Officials in Japan today rejected a US request to talk about lifting a ban on American beef imports. They say they want to know more about the [...]

STEVE INSKEEP, host: From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Steve Inskeep. Today officials at the US Department of Agriculture said they now know the source of the first [...]

MELISSA BLOCK, host: That single case of mad cow disease sent cattle futures plummeting again today at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. They were down 3 cents a pound, the limit [...]

BOB EDWARDS, host: Government officials will be working today and through the weekend to trace the first known case of mad cow disease in the United States. British scientists confirmed [...]

MELISSA BLOCK, host: That single case of mad cow disease sent cattle futures plummeting again today at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. They were down 3 cents a pound, the limit [...]

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Scientists in England today confirmed earlier tests showing that a cow slaughtered in Washington state had mad cow disease. The discovery of the first known case of [...]

BOB EDWARDS, host: Federal officials are in the state of Washington trying to figure out how a cow there contracted mad cow disease. The government says the American beef supply [...]

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: The US Department of Agriculture is trying to track down the source of the presumed case of mad cow. In the meantime, the Washington state supplier that [...]

MELISSA BLOCK, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel. A cow slaughtered in Washington state appears to have [...]

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Linda Wertheimer. The Japanese Agriculture Ministry announced today that it plans to slaughter and incinerate more than 5,000 head [...]

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Linda Wertheimer. NOAH ADAMS, host: And I'm Noah Adams. Mad cow disease appears to be on the march again. [...]

NOAH ADAMS, host: From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Noah Adams. LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: And I'm Linda Wertheimer. In Greensboro, Vermont, today, federal officials seized 233 sheep owned [...]

NOAH ADAMS, host: From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Noah Adams. LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: And I'm Linda Wertheimer. In Greensboro, Vermont, today, federal officials seized 233 sheep owned [...]

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: The American Red Cross will ask the federal government tomorrow to ban blood donations from people who have lived in Western Europe in the last 20 years. [...]

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: Fear of mad cow disease continues to grip Europe as countries across the continent discover new cases of the disease in cattle. Today, butchers and restaurant owners [...]

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: In France today, the families of two victims of the human form of mad cow disease filed a lawsuit. They accused French, British and European Union officials [...]